The relation of CPTED characteristics to the risk of residential burglary in and outside the city center of Ghent

Peeters, Marlijn; Beken, T. Van der

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.06.012

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“…This opinion was also held by the realtors. This finding is consistent with literatures (see for instance: Schneider and Kitchen, 2002;Parnaby, 2007;Armitage, 2013;Cozens, 2014;Cozens and Love, 2015;Peeters and Beken, 2017;Badiora, 2017) which have found respondents confirmed the effectiveness of CCTV. Nonetheless, this opinion changed significantly in the night-time with both realtors and tenants agreeing that incidences of nigh time break-ins seem to best reduced by visible police officers and security guards.…”

Section: Residential Property and Break-inssupporting

confidence: 93%

Residential property and break-ins

Badiora

Adebara

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine realtors and residents’ perceptions of the effectiveness of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) in reducing night-time and daytime break-ins in residential estate. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted case study methods. Two residential estates (one at inner and the other at outer city) were selected as cases of the study. Data were collected from two sets of respondents: realtors and tenants. In the realtors’ cluster, all real estate and property development companies were sampled since the population is very small. Systematic sampling technique was used to select residents. Respondents were asked to answer closed-ended questions on socio-economic and demographic characteristics, perception of property crime, spending on CPTED and effectiveness of CPTED. Data were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings Findings disclose that more than half of the residents of inner and outer city had been victims of housebreaks and these incidences are expected to increase in the nearest future. To reduce break-ins, findings show that realtors and residents have spent on both formal and informal surveillance with emphasis on ensuring visual control over premises. Furthermore, respondents confirm the effectiveness of CPTED in deterring break-ins. The study establishes variation in the realtors and tenants’ perception of break-ins as spending on CPTED strategies vary between them, with locations and types of properties. Practical implications Social and human factors remain very important as far as the prevention of break-ins is concerned. These should be taken into considerations when improving CPTED approach in the future. Besides, adequate attentions should be given to daytime break-in. Nonetheless, night-time break-ins should not be neglected. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the importance of visible, clean and well-lit premises as ways of reducing break-ins. It is therefore suggested that residential properties should be well lit at nights, while CCTV and security personnel be positioned in strategic places and within security viewing range so as to send fast alerts to the nearest police stations in the cases of break-in(s). Originality/value Very few studies on effectiveness of CPTED have mainly concentrated on how CPTED works in residential estates. No study till date, have explored how realtors perceive CPTED in preventing break-ins. Besides, this study contributes to existing literature having revealed variation in the realtors and tenants’ spending on CPTED on the basis of property location and types of residential properties.

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Section: Residential Property and Break-inssupporting

confidence: 93%

Residential property and break-ins

Badiora

Adebara

2019

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“…The analysis of the relationship between the crime rate and the spatial pattern of the community has become the main challenge faced by the scholars in criminal geography and urban planning (Tang et al 2017). Empirical research shows that there is a significant correlation between urban crime and community spatial environment (Marzbali et al 2016;Peeters and Vander Beken 2017;Yue et al 2018). Later, people use statistical analysis tools to achieve more accurate results on the relationship between the incidence of community space crime and spatial environment (Tang et al 2017).…”

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Comparison of effects of spatial anticrime in open communities in China

Jiang

Bing

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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In 2016, the Chinese government raised community opening policy for the first time. In order to study the effects of spatial anticrime in open communities, five quantifiable evaluation indexes are selected, which are "flow density, police deployment distance, spatial visibility, anti-capture ability and spatial connectivity". They are applied to the quantitative analysis of the spatial anticrime performance of two different building layouts in open community in China. The spatial anticrime analysis model from the perspective of crime prevention is practical and feasible, which is of avail for the police to check up the physical environment vulnerable to crime in advance, and to carry out preliminary prevention from the causes of crime. The empirical study shows that both "Determinant" and "Enclosed" Community layout have their own advantages and disadvantages. Overall, the spatial structure of determinant is safer than the enclosed spatial structure, but the partial safety is lower due to the obstruction of sight and insufficient pedestrian flow in the narrow space between some buildings. The enclosed layout structure has higher safety in the interior space of the community space group, but lower safety factor on the main roads. Finally, the corresponding security promotion strategies are proposed for these two communities.

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“…This result of visibility factor also supports the efficacy of such strategies of CPTED. In contrast, Peeters and Beken (2017) found that the importance of surveillance was less significant in the city because there are so many people in urban environments that it is very difficult to identify outsiders.…”

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Awareness of crime prevention effects associated with a wall removal project in Seoul

Kim

Park

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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This study investigated Groups' awareness of how wall removal affects crime prevention. Group 1 comprised of burglars, Group 2 of non-residents who have not removed walls, and Group 3 of residents who have removed walls and are living in wall removal project areas. First, we examine differences in awareness between Groups 1 and 2 regarding ease of crime in relation to the presence or absence of a wall. Second, we examined the awareness levels of Groups 1 and 2 in relation to important factors considered by intruders when committing a burglary. Finally, we examined how wall removal reduces the fear of crime in Groups 2 and 3. Group 1 believed a house with a wall was an easier target for crime, but Group 2, comprised of residents who did not perform wall removal, had contrary opinions. Group 2 believed that wall removal did not reduce the fear of crime, unlike Group 3. These results indicate that Group 2 has negative perceptions of wall removal in the context of crime prevention, which stems from the common belief that a wall will protect a house from outside threats. Therefore, changes in mindset are needed to create safe environments in detached housing areas.

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The relation of CPTED characteristics to the risk of residential burglary in and outside the city center of Ghent

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

Residential property and break-ins

Residential property and break-ins

Comparison of effects of spatial anticrime in open communities in China

Awareness of crime prevention effects associated with a wall removal project in Seoul

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